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authorMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2015-07-01 17:19:30 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-08-10 12:21:52 -0700
commit32469b1200b97621d0ec24aa0eb675264b95dc7b (patch)
treed47648c76375a6a779e93bef7b79dd972186a8ea /Documentation
parenta783168dabf7c681959353b6560da3b0b1370386 (diff)
kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags
commit 61754c18752ffb78145671e94f053fb202fff041 upstream. Since commit a1c48bb1 (Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command line options), the arch Makefile is included earlier by the main Makefile, preventing the arc architecture to set its -O3 compiler option. Since there might be more use cases for an arch Makefile to fine-tune the options, add support for ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS and ARCH_CFLAGS variables that are appended to the respective kbuild variables. The user still has the final say via the KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS variables. Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 74b6c6d97210..d2b1c40cb666 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -952,6 +952,14 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
$(KBUILD_ARFLAGS) set by the top level Makefile to "D" (deterministic
mode) if this option is supported by $(AR).
+ ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS, ARCH_CFLAGS Overrides the kbuild defaults
+
+ These variables are appended to the KBUILD_CPPFLAGS,
+ KBUILD_AFLAGS, and KBUILD_CFLAGS, respectively, after the
+ top-level Makefile has set any other flags. This provides a
+ means for an architecture to override the defaults.
+
+
--- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archheaders:
The archheaders: rule is used to generate header files that